Two filed experiments on chickpea were carried out during the two winter
seasons of 2001/02 and 2002/03 at the Experimental Center, Faculty of Agriculture at
Moshtohor, Zagazig University. Each experimental included 12 treatments which were
the combination of two treatments of phosphate dissolving bacteria (B. megatherium)
inoculation i.e. "phosphorein" (with or without), three phosphorus fertilizer levels (0, 15
and 30 kg P2O5/fed.) and two spraying treatments with Fe ( tap water and 0.5 g/L as
chelated iron, 14 % Fe-EDTA).
Results showed that phosphorein treatments, inoculating chickpea seeds with
phosphate dissolving bacteria (Bacillus megatherium) significantly surpassed the
uninoculated in plant height, pods weight/plant, seed index, seed yield/plant, yields of
seed, straw, biological as well as seed protein yields/fed, N and P uptake/fed. in the
combined analysis of both growing seasons.
Plant height, number of branches and pods/plant, pods and seeds
weight/plant,100-seed weight, seed yield/fed., seed protein % as well as of yield/fed., N
and P uptake/fed were improved by phosphorus fertilization, while the lowest values for
forenamed traits were obtained in the unfertilized plots.
Foliar spraying with Fe had significant effected on most studied traits in the 1st

and the 2nd
seasons as well as combined analysis
The studied simple correlation indicated that there were positive and high
significant coefficients between each pair of plant height, pods number and weight/plant
seed yield/plant, straw, biological yields/fed and seed yield/fed.